Question: Which literary award did John Steinbeck receive?
Paraphrase: Which scholarly grant did John Steinbeck get?
SPARQL (Wikidata):  select distinct ?obj where { wd:Q39212 wdt:P166 ?obj . ?obj wdt:P31 wd:Q378427 } 
Answer: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, Nobel Prize in Literature